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NA World Services Online Meeting Webinar

Online Meeting Webinar

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The World Board is hosting a 90-minute interactive webinar on Saturday 14 September at 11:00 am Pacific Time, focused on gathering best practices of online meetings. Log-in information will be emailed out a week or two in advance of the meeting. This webinar is open to any interested members. As the numbers of online meetings increases and attracts members from around the world, it is important that we better understand online meetings and capture what is working well.

We asked Conference participants what they were most interested in knowing about this topic and have framed the September webinar around their ideas. It’s also worth noting that one of the topics prioritized for discussion at the last World Service Conference was related to online meetings, with one of the questions for discussion being What help do you need?

We are trying to capture members’ experience of what is working well in online meetings in a way that is helpful to those meetings rather than prescriptive. Some of the questions we may ask include

  • What is working best?
  • How do online meetings handle contributions?
  • How do online meetings handle literature?
  • How do they interface with the existing NA community?

This is certainly not the only opportunity to share your experience or ideas about online meetings, but we encourage interested members to attend the webinar.  Participants will be broken into discussion groups for part of this webinar so people who have input to offer will have an opportunity to share. We’ve never planned a meeting of this type for any interested member, so we are not sure how many people will attend. We are planning to use a timer to make sure everyone who is interested gets a chance to share their thoughts. This is not a debate on those best practices or on specific challenges with online meetings. The focus of this call is to collect information that could be helpful to online meetings. We welcome your input anytime at wb@na.org. We will also be scheduling this same webinar in Spanish sometime after this webinar. We will have staff administering the call beginning at 10:00 am Pacific Time, and we encourage everyone to plan to log-on at least a half hour early and test your connection. If you are new to the Zoom platform and have never joined a World Service web meeting before, please read the Web Meeting Participant Orientation document on the Conference page (www.na.org/conference).  To receive a notification about this webinar go to www.na.org/subscribe.

Spiritual Principle a Day (SPAD) Book project

This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for review and input of the first batch of entries for the book is 1 September. You can find the review material and other information about the project at www.na.org/spad.

Yours in service,
World Board

Literature Price Rise from 1st July 2019

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The Fellowship Services Office (FSO) has announced that there will be a literature price rise from the 1st July 2019.

“Our prices have remained stable since 2014. In that time all costs have increased and the exchange rate for the US$ has dropped from near parity to 66 cents. As most of our goods are purchased from NA World Services in the US this has had a huge impact on our cost of goods sold and thus our profitability.

Therefore, the FSO Management Committee have authorised a wide-ranging increase to our prices which will affect most of our products. The new prices will become effective on 1st July. Thank you for your understanding.”

Fellowship Services Office Management Committee.

To purchase literature and NA paraphernalia go to www.fso.com.au 

Positions Vacant – Australian Regional Service Committee

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The following positions (along with their clean time) are becoming available on the Australian Regional Service Committee (ARSC) of NA.
Elections will take place on 21 July 2019. If you would like to apply please refer to the link to the nomination form below.
RD (Regional Delegate) – 6 Years (there is to be a confirmation vote of current AD). If this fails the member applying must have served at Region at least 1 of the previous 3 years as a ARSC participant.
AD (Alternate Delegate) – 4 Years (AD must have served 1 of the last 3 years at the ARSC).
Chair – 3 Years
Vice Chair – 2 Years
Secretary – 2 Years
Assistant Secretary – 2 Years
Treasurer – 5 Years
Assistant Treasurer – 5 Years
Regional Sub Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs – Indigenous, IT, Na Today, Outreach, Policy, Public Relations – 3 Years (Outreach is 5 years).
Policy Subcommittee Members are also to be elected in.

If you have questions or would like to nominate please email secretary@na.org.au

Narcotics Anonymous Australia

Virtual NA

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NA Meetings Online & by Phone

A new website has been developed focussing on virtual meetings.

The new site brings together virtual NA meetings from around the world providing a meeting services to remote or isolated addicts from around the world. Virtual meetings are proving to be a viable alternative for addicts who may be unable to attend local face to face meetings.

Five languages are represented in virtual meetings: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Times are always shown in visitor’s local time zones,  so it’s easy to plan attendance.

For more information go to https://virtual-na.org/